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by tylerhou 5y ago
> This is not entirely true. Lower SAT scores are correlated with dropping out of certain majors at much higher rates. This statement needs more careful examination for two reasons. First, students drop out for various reasons that are n
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In my opinion, much of the time "positive discrimination" is a misnomer. The most salient debate is in college admissions — some people believe that BIPOC have an "easier" time getting admitted to schools like Harvard wi
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Diversity goals are only discriminatory if you assume that hiring practices (sans diversity goals) are not discriminatory. That's assumption probably isn't true, given that there numerous studies that show that e.g. black people h
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Covid infection produced antibodies can also cause ADE, so that's not a great argument against immunization.
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You're right that basic econ doesn't always hold, but in practice, it often does. In this case we actually have data on how road expansion affects transport times, which show that transport times slightly drop (as econ 101 predict
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> Adding in a new road can actually increase traffic as it ends up encouraging more people to drive who otherwise wouldn't have. You're alluding to "induced demand," which does not claim that adding a new road increas
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The actual report says that there are 125,000 homes in London without permanent residents. Those homes aren't unoccupied; they're often used for AirBnB or temporary rentals. That's not a vacancy. In reality, only a fifth of
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Vancouver: "City housing planner Matthew Bourke said there doesn't appear to be a correlation between empty homes and housing prices, given that the vacancy rate remained flat while prices skyrocketed.... Bourke told council that
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None of the articles support a narrative that there is an epidemic of vacancies among high-end housing. Vancouver: The article claims that there is ~5% vacancy rate. This is actually below the normal rate for vacancies in the US. Condos hav
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What concrete data do you have to suggest that luxury homes aren't being occupied at significantly higher rates than general housing stock?
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That blogpost you cited says that there is a 5% vacancy rate. That's well within the normal range. So I don't see how it supports your argument. https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/musne8&
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> Unfortunately as the Tiktaalik mentioned, we have a housing shortage now. So the trickle-down economics of luxury housing won't work for at least a generation. What data are you basing this claim off of? Many people (especially yo
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I don't think any code sensitive enough to performance to warrant SVE instructions will want to tolerate a jump in a very tight loop.
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Lichess is not for profit, so donating to Lichess means that my dollar goes "farther" for infrastructure & helps subsidize the website (which has many features) for other people who may not be able to pay. The main developer o
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I don't think you're the target audience, then. A startup would be happy spending $70 a month (per developer) if it made their developers even 1% more productive: $100,000 / 12 * 0.01 == $83.33 (This is a low estimate; the va
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> There IS a glut of cash on-hand right now, For some people. Others still have very little cash. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-10/how-a-k-s...
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To add on to your point, the core issue is that you need to take into account correlated risk when deciding on your investment strategy/risk tolerance. If you're at the point where you need to dip into an emergency fund, it's
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They are not completely wrong. Crowdfunding a product is not the same as purchasing that product because often people only decide to donate because the resulting product is free. (For example, I give $5 a month to Lichess, but I am unwill
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> Actions which are not prosecutable under the law are very specifically what you say they are not: legally meaningless. Are you really trying to suggest that actions done by an individual are illegal only if the government can successfu
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My "stronger claim" is my original claim, just rephrased, so don't pretend that I have moved any goalposts. These statements are in the Mueller report, as you can see for yourself. https://www.justice.gov/arch
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The original poster said: > in the end, The Mueller report admitted that no evidence was ever found to substantiate Trump or his associates or campaign ever working with Russians to interfere with the election? and > there never was a
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> as it turned out (as explained in Mueller's report), there never was any evidence for it. Can you actually quote the report to support your claims? The report actually says that there was evidence to support communication/col
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https://hub.github.com/hub.1.html#github-oauth-authenticatio... > Hub will prompt for GitHub username & password the first time it needs to access the API and exchange it for an OAuth token, which it saves in ~/
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I can still determine timing information by measuring how long it takes to execute a program. The only way to prevent this is to enforce constant-time programs by delaying a response until a specific amount of time (see constant time compar
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Have you ever filed a police report regarding rape/sexual assault? It can be incredibly dehumanizing, especially when it is nearly impossible to prove that someone date-raped you when there are no witnesses.
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> suggests they're all silently colluding (by copying each others' quotas) to keep the Asian enrolment percentage at precisely the depressed X percent. You need more evidence than a trend to claim that there is a conspiracy. An
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I agree that both money and involvement is necessary. But in our current world, nonprofits have a lack of money, not lack of involvement. Nonprofits talk all the time about how difficult it is to fundraise. And all the charities GiveWell re
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Why not? A collective, efforts-based, altruistic organization needs funding. If such a organization could demonstrate that their efforts lead to good outcomes (improve happiness, save lives), then effective altruists would donate to them. A
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You said vaccines haven't undergone preclinical testing; where is the evidence of that? All EUA vaccines have undergone animal tests.
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> I think that article I linked represents a real risk The article you linked estimates the risk of DNA integration is three orders of magnitude times lower than gene deactivation through regular mutations. I think we're safe. >

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